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#37581 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 2,002
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John Shetzline 1882 MISSING PLAYER
I found one of my most wanted missing players in Shetzline, who played in 73 games for the 1882 Baltimore team. He played for years in the minors but no image had surfaced: until now. He was pictured in the quite useful 1885 Trenton team photo which was published in the 7/6/1930 edition of the Trenton Times.
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#37582 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: San Diego, CA
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John H. Murphy 1884 MISSING PLAYER
Another missing player was featured in the 1885 Trenton team photograph, pitcher John Murphy. He played briefly in the 1884 Union Association for Altoona and Wilmington. This was printed in the 7/6/1930 edition of the Trenton Times.
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#37583 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 2,002
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Marshall Quinton 1884 MISSING PLAYER
I found Quinton pictured with as a member of the 1884 Trenton team. It was featured in the 12/7/1930 edition of the Trenton Times.
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#37584 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 4,312
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A trifecta of missing players! Great find, cinemaodyssey.
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#37585 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 2,185
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Dick Stuart 1958 (in 1966)
Back to the Brace bag and some seldom-seen shots of "Dr. Strangelove" during the rapid unscheduled disassembly of a career that saw him hit a startling 66 homers at Lincoln of the Western League in 1956, lead a World Championship team in homers in his third big league season, get MVP votes in three different seasons...and then come apart at the seams.
Dealt to the Red Sox for 1963, the Phillies for 1965, the Mets for 1966, released to the Dodgers in 1966, released by the Dodgers in 1967, to Japan for two seasons, back to get just eight hits in two months with the '69 Angels (I actually saw him play for them at Yankee Stadium when I was 10) and when released again, a fruitless audition for the Giants with their PCL farm in Phoenix. What's puzzling is that George Brace got Stuart with all of his clubs through '66 (Topps even got him, at Dodger Stadium, and then again at Vero Beach before his controversial release during Spring Training '67) - but neither he nor anybody else got him in color with the Angels, even though California played a two-game series at Comiskey in April (he started one of the games). To my knowledge there is no color of Stuart with the Angels and I've seen only two black and white shots, one of which is a not very good copy of a team publicity photo I previously posted here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...ostcount=25285 Still, a couple of nice Dodger shots, and he did pinch-hit in the World Series for them. |
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#37586 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 2,185
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Dick Stuart 1958 (in 1969)
I forgot! I actually found the actual '69 Angels' publicity shot and cleaned it up a little. Still, nothing in color.
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#37587 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 2,185
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Harry Chiti 1950 (in 1962)
No, this isn't Harry Chiti forcing a smile at the 60-year old joke about him: Who was the only "Player To Be Named Later" in a trade who turned out to be his own "Player To Be Named Later"?
It's sorta true. The Mets bought him from Cleveland on April 26, 1962, got (as he noted bitterly afterwards) only 43 at bats for New York, and was assigned to the Cleveland farm at Jacksonville on June 15, 1962. As the Mets' writer of The Hackensack Record, John Ryan, put it: "This completed an earlier deal with Cleveland for guess who? Harry Chiti." They returned him. There was no "Player To Be Named Later" in the original transaction. A more bizarre truth about the Mets in '62 that gets buried behind the Chiti exaggeration, is that the Mets inexplicably used seven different catchers in 1962. They began with two: Joe Ginsberg and Hobie Landrith. Ginsberg was released on May 1 and Landith, who had been their first choice in the expansion draft, was sent to Baltimore as an actual PTBNL for Marv Throneberry on June 7. They traded for Sammy Taylor on April 26, Chiti, and Joe Pignatano on July 13. They also kept bringing up and sending back Chris Cannizzaro and Choo Choo Coleman from/to the International League. The season was barely over when they bought Norm Sherry from the Dodgers, and on July 1, 1963, traded for Jesse Gonder. 237 games into their history and the Mets had used nine different catchers. That the Mets were all kinds of different disasters on the field through 1967 is well documented. That their front office under George Weiss (and Casey Stengel) had no idea what it was doing, and no familiarity with the National League personnel, is less recognized. Anyway, Harry actually did have the last laugh. In 2023 the Mets' bullpen coach was... his son Dom. |
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#37588 |
Minors (Double A)
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 102
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Great shot of Chiti -- thanks so much Merk!
Figure his Topps photo will never see the light of day given current business realities, but this portrait is amazing. Amazin' even. |
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#37589 |
All Star Starter
Join Date: Aug 2023
Location: Wilkes-Barre, PA
Posts: 1,026
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Great find with the 3 missing players!
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#37590 |
Bat Boy
Join Date: Feb 2025
Location: Windsor, VT
Posts: 19
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Is there any color picts of Dean Chance with A’s?
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#37591 |
All Star Starter
Join Date: Aug 2023
Location: Wilkes-Barre, PA
Posts: 1,026
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Hobe Ferris 1901 (1899 Norwich Witches uniform)
A very nice rare image
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#37592 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 2,185
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Dick Littlefield 1950 (in 1956)
I guess Littlefield being previously unseen in a Giants' uniform makes sense. By the time this wire service shot was snapped on February 26, 1957, he'd already been traded seven times in seven years - and one of the deals had to be undone.
This is, in fact, a rare picture of Dick Littlefield not being traded. The image shows Windy McCall, Wes Westrum, and Littlefield bidding Hoyt Wilhelm farewell as he leaves the Giants' Arizona camp to report to the St. Louis Cardinals (traded for Whitey Lockman). Littlefield was traded from the Pirates to the Cardinals to the Giants to the Dodgers during '56 and made 31 appearances in New York. The Dodger trade, of course, was the infamous swap to Brooklyn for Jackie Robinson - voided because Robinson had already decided to retire even before the Dodgers dealt him. That didn't stop Littlefield's trade curse. 18 days after this shot was taken he was traded, again, to the Cubs. He would later be sold to the Braves in 1958 (but all the other transactions were actual trades for actual players). He pitched in the minors through '62. |
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#37593 |
All Star Starter
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 1,294
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Dick Littlefield
Another option although a bit blurry
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#37594 |
Minors (Triple A)
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 244
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Ken Esposito-Texas Rangers
I was wondering if anybody knows anything about Ken Esposito with the 1974 Texas Rangers as per the photos, GC895-896. According to Baseball Reference he only goes to 1973 with the Mets...that's all. I was wondering maybe he was traded to the Rangers and was maybe released during the 1974 Spring Training.
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#37595 |
Minors (Single A)
Join Date: Aug 2018
Posts: 57
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From MLB.com 2020
ARLINGTON -- Kenny Esposito was a lifelong Yankees fan from Long Island who loved to play the guitar. He was also a left-handed pitcher of considerable ability.
The Mets took him in the second round of the 1969 MLB Draft out of Nassau County Community College. At the time, the Mets' director of player development was Whitey Herzog. • How the Rule 5 Draft works Three years later, on Nov. 2, 1972, Herzog was hired as manager of the Rangers. So obviously Herzog followed Esposito closely as the young left-hander tried to make his way through the Mets' farm system. That winter, Esposito was the first ever selection by the Rangers in the annual Rule 5 Draft. But Esposito did not make the Rangers and pitched just two more seasons in professional baseball. He ended up in a popular two-man rock group, Mike and Kenny on Long Island. |
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#37596 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 2,185
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Joe W. Coleman 1965 (in 1978-79)
You're 15-8 at the All-Star break and you don't make the All-Star team? Well, they didn't have 13 pitchers per team in 1973 and few guys begged off and if you'd been on it the year before, somebody else got a chance, and nobody made it after five games, Heck, Nolan Ryan had to wait five seasons (and only made the team in year six; he didn't even pitch)
Joe Coleman, Jr (though that wasn't his legs; name) died on July 9. Rick Monday was the first choice of the first draft and unfortunately the Mets made Les Rohr the second but Coleman was the third and after some superb but futile years in Washington he went to the Tigers in one of the worst trades of all time. Detroit got him, Aurelio Rodríguez, and Ed Brinkman for a burnt out Denny McLain (and Elliott Maddox). Coleman reeled off three years with at least 280 innings and at least 202 strikeouts and win totals of 19, 20, and 23, when they still were paramount. But Coleman, son of an equally under appreciated righty of the '40s and '50s, himself burned out and in June was waived to the Cubs. The next March he went to the A's in a trade. A year after that he was sold to Toronto. The Giants signed him as a free agent in April 1979 (and released him after three weeks) and the Pirates brought him aboard for 10 games. He spent the rest of 1979 through 1982 in the PCL, the last three seasons as a pitcher-coach. After the Tigers waived him he started just 16 times in three-and-a-half years. Oddly, in the Brace collection there was no shot of Coleman with the Cubs (and I've never seen him). We've seen a black and white of him with the Giants, apparently in Spring Training. But Brace got him in three stops on his blacked-out cap tour. His son Casey pitched for the Cubs. He was the first member of the three-generation family to not make an All-Star team - and get MVP votes. |
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Minors (Triple A)
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 244
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Ken Esposito-Rangers
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Thanks a million for your info!!! So what you're saying is that Esposito was released by the Rangers before the end of Spring Training. I label each player in each season and file them in what I call my "Home Folders", those that can't be made into portraits for MVP2005 and those that were traded or injured or released before the end of the particular season. Looks like I have to put a "Re" for released on Mr. Esposito. Thanks a Million Bobw for the valuable info!!! BRobby5 |
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#37598 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 4,312
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Ken Esposito
The word "release" usually means that the player has been severed from association with all major league franchises and he is now a free agent.
What happened to Ken Esposito under the Rule 5 draft situation was that on March 30, 1973, the Rangers returned him to the Mets' organization. |
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Bat Boy
Join Date: Feb 2025
Location: Windsor, VT
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#37600 |
Major Leagues
Join Date: Sep 2020
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 350
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Harry Chiti - A's
Here's one. Palette.fm with a "red assist" from Photoshop Elements. |
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